The figure of $24,381,700 under “Gross Appropriation” does not exactly match the enacted figure in Act No.523. The Act shows an appropriation of $12.4 million. This was later revised upward. The author took the liberty of rolling the supplemental appropriation into this analysis to reflect the true potential savings from eliminating the program.

Fiscal year 2003 the Michigan Council for Arts and Cultural Affairs grant application form, “Artist in Residence for Education Program,” Lansing School District, p. 5. Other work for the “teaching artist” including dressing up as Cortez and “barking out orders in gibberish so the students would understand the language problem the Aztecs faced, and how threatened they felt.”